Why do some people live far from their parents?

I at first laughed when I read your question. Lord knows, some days, I wish when I was around age 20, I'd moved far, far away and not returned to my home town ever! And this is gonna sound so hateful, but in my world, folks would just die peacefully in their sleep sometime in their, say, 75th year or so. Time enough time to enjoy retirement and grandchildren. Having worked as a medical transcriber for 36 years, I don't understand why we in this country bend over backward so far to keep folks going and to stop nature from taking its course. The mainstream media continues to scare and bombard us to death with so-called preventive medicine and procedures which keeps us popping pills, getting lab work done, lining up for testing, etc., etc., all becoming increasingly expensive. We're headed for "stack em and pack em's," high-rise nursing homes and apartments just to keep us hobbling along maybe another 10 years, how very depressing. Thank God for alternative medicine and the internet, at least you can communicate with others and educate yourself and then make some decisions.

I do what I can for mom but neither she or I, even at my age, will be doing any more colonoscopies, mammograms or other things unless we have symptoms. I thank God she is physically pretty healthy and does have money. I will do my best to keep her out of a facility but frankly, as I'm training to be a nurse's aide (will be out of a job as a transcriber at age 59 so had to pick another "career"), I will probably be working in one of them and will hopefully be able to keep an eye on her and who's dealing with her.

cindyoh, FINALLY I found someone who thinks like I do. Nature taking its course, that's my mantra!!!! And I love the "stack 'ems and pack 'ems"!! For me, no thanks, that's no life. Modern medicine, while good for some things, has not done older people any favors. Trying to convince us we will live forever if we just take this pill or have this test done. And people believe them, that's what I don't get. My mother being one of them. Wow!

People are living longer and it is not just a pill. Look at those with Alzheimer's, they give them meds but it is not to make them better it is just to help with the symptoms. I just saw my mom's doctor and she could live another 13 years with Alzheimer's, she will probably die of something else. The meds are not keeping her alive she is just living long and that is what is happening. If we take care of ourselves we can live a long time. Some meds do help people live longer, but not all.

We just live longer at this time.